General questions regarding FreeBSD 10

2013-09-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
General questions regarding FreeBSD 10: 1. Did virtualization containers (VPS) make it into FreeBSD 10? The documentation I’ve read implies that you can have nested containers, with little to no performance penalty, is this correct? How is networking handled inside these containers? 2. I'm

Re: You have been unsubscribed from the freebsd-questions mailing list

2007-04-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
It takes months to find new users, but only seconds to lose one... the good news is that we should run out of them in no time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give him your two cents. On 3/12/07, Daniel

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: That is only true if the process is giant locked. When look at dmesg, look for things that say GIANT-LOCKED and those will be ones confined to one processor. Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered...

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered... sigh. And it's NOT rare to see giant locked processes on a heavily loaded web server. No Giants Here

Re: RESEND: Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suggested adding a prompt to sysinstall asking if ppl wanted to participate, and the response I heard was that someone basically needed to submit a patch ... anyone here know enough about sysinstall to do so? If considering work on

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. 1. You need to rebuild the kernel with SMP support. 2. The correct names are; Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core Solo, and Core 2 Solo. 3.

Re: Best way to kill pixels?

2007-01-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/15/07, [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What's the best way to make more dead pixels on an LCD display?... So a manufacturer will be forced to replace it. Would a high voltage static discharge through the panel work? Would it leave physical evidence

Best way to kill pixels?

2007-01-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
What's the best way to make more dead pixels on an LCD display?... So a manufacturer will be forced to replace it. Would a high voltage static discharge through the panel work? Would it leave physical evidence of tempering, like melted silicon? Thanks.

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/11/07, Bill-Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 it looks like Nikolas Britton composed: On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of Linux

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:12:46AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/10/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [irrelevant cruft removed] On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 23:54:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Why should I

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible expense. For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just

Re: /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for /etc/make.conf for the following machine: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as deductible as contributions? Hire someone qualified as your own full- or part-time employee, and assign them to work on the projects that you

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/07, Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of Linux..sometime after that, focus was lost. USL v. BSDi happened. ___

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions -

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, January 09, 2007, at 02:38PM, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Why is another project's

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know about some of the items, but... -Flash support with Mozilla products is being done through Mozilla's ActionScript Engine: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html. So, I expect the latest

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Andreas Rudisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:08:45 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Since when is Xorg a part

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't! If you are that taken back - you certainly don't need the issues of a project that does not deliver on it's promises. On the other hand - feel free to use Microsoft's products because we all know that they tend to keep promises AND, as a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as well as other obligations that come

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wonder which end of a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:07:08PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Why then? Various administrative delays, mostly. e.g. the main ftp distribution server had hardware failure for a few weeks. Shit happens and we did just change out the core

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as well as other obligations that come first... I need this stuff to just work... so I can get real things done. In other words, you want us to hurry

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unhappy but I care too much about FreeBSD to just up and leave, it may be time for a sabbatical though... And I complain because I care... like a parent

Downloading files from -CURRENT, How?

2006-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm trying grab a copy of /usr/src/sys/dev/sound and /usr/src/sys/modules/sound from HEAD so I can MFC a few things. I tried this, but it didn't work: $ more current-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/src/HEAD/var/db *default prefix=/usr/src/HEAD/usr *default

Re: Downloading files from -CURRENT, How?

2006-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/22/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I'm trying grab a copy of /usr/src/sys/dev/sound and /usr/src/sys/modules/sound from HEAD so I can MFC a few things. I tried this, but it didn't work: $ more current-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org

Re: Teletronics wlan 200mW card supported under 5.x?

2006-10-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/16/06, Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got the Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card to work under freebsd 5.4, which I currently run? or 6.x? The Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card is high on my list of possible cards with

Re: Upgrading firmware on Areca RAID card?

2006-10-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/9/06, Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I would like to upgrade the firmware on my Areca ARC-1210 SATA RAID card. Has anyone out there done this, and if so, do you have any advice on doing it? I have downloaded a program called archttp32 that appears to be a FreeBSD 4.2 32-bit

Re: Upgrading firmware on Areca RAID card?

2006-10-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/9/06, Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I would like to upgrade the firmware on my Areca ARC-1210 SATA RAID card. Has anyone out there done this, and if so, do you have any advice on doing it? I have downloaded a program called archttp32 that appears to be a FreeBSD 4.2 32-bit

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD and Linux will not meet your teenagers needs, If you really want to introduce your kid to UNIX then buy a Mac... trust me on this... I interact with many high school and college kids on a daily basis. Any used Mac capable of

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:35, Erik Norgaard wrote: In the standard-supfile for the base system you'd specify RELENG_6 which means you'll get head of -STABLE, or if you are conservative RELENG_6_1 which means that you'll just get security patches

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. ... KOffice 1.5 has

Re: Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD?

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/3/06, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was going to post this to net@, but figured I'd get a bigger audience and better answers on this list. (Please copy responses to me as well as the list to make sure I see them.) I'm building a machine which is going to have very high network

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select bold it writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: Message

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. ... KOffice 1.5 has OpenDocument support. Not that I'm any more eager to get into a KDE mess than a Gnome mess :)

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/2/06, Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Phipps wrote: Right now my biggest resources have to be google and the O'Reilly book Essential Sys. Admin. but I'd like to have a reference guide more suited to only the FreeBSD platform. Any recommendations on this as well? I

Force UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4?

2006-09-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
How do you force a UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4 mode in FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd, or something else,

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem:

FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem:

Re: When will KDE4 be in the ports tree?

2006-08-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/26/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Lake wrote: Just curious when to start expecting to see KDE4 in the ports tree for Freebsd. From the reports I've been seeing, it's pretty close to being released soon. So the curiosity bug bit me and I decided to ask here. :)

Re: Commercial Software

2006-08-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/26/06, shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I quote you from your page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also encouraged to contact us. I am a software writer, my website is

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/26/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choices

Re: Add colored border around console?

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/21/06, perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night

Re: Add colored border around console?

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/21/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/21/06, perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made

Add colored border around console?

2006-08-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
How do I do this: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/IMG_5496-2.jpg What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night to generate interrupt load as part of a system stress test. -- BSD

Re: GCC - Optimal Optimization

2006-08-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/18/06, Sean M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With GCC 3.4.4, what are the best CFLAGS to use for an AMD Duron ~1000 MHz? By best I mean creating the fastest programs that exploit fully all of the architecture's features, without creating a noticible increase in size. To date I've been using

Re: AMD 64 3000

2006-08-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/18/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web server? We are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm hesitant to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD? What are you doing that would

Re: GCC - Optimal Optimization

2006-08-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
of += and ?=, and the creative use of -mtune= to optimize the parts of the kernel, world, and ports that ignore CPUTYPE... BTW never put -march= in CFLAGS because it WILL break your system... Use CPUTYPE?= to set -march. --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC the Duron should be set to athlon or athlon

lang/php4 defaults to cgi build?

2006-08-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
lang/php4 defaults to cgi build. When did we decide this? AFAIK it always built the apache module in the past... isn't that standard procedure for building a LAMP stack? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/

Re: USB Media Keys

2006-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/06, Jeff Molofee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you know of any usb keys that have volume keys? No I don't know of any USB keyboards with volume control... I'm picky about my keyboards... Most of them are old DEC, Compaq, and IBM keyboards with the standard key layout... I think the keys

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
... perhaps my earlier example: ifconfig |md5. If not please remove my entries in the database. I've attached the script used to make the hashes. On 8/10/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: iCal Server

2006-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/9/06, Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody working on porting this Apple product to FreeBSD? The source code can be downloaded here: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration/wiki I'm really interested in a product like this, and Chandler looks like a pretty decent client.

Re: USB Media Keys

2006-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/06, Jeff Molofee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get USB media keys to work in FreeBSD 6.x? I can't get anything to even see the keys, I would like to get my volume keys working on a Saitek Eclipse keyboard. What on earth are you talking about? USB keyboards, USB mass

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Ok... With my new script it took only 158 minutes to compute ALL TCP/IP address hashes. I'll repeat that... I have an md5 hash for every IP address in the world! All I

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Igor Robul wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Could

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/10/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Igor Robul wrote: On Tue, Aug 08

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
for the google summer of code project etc for this when we have softupdates But I guess I must be missing something -- martin On 8/9/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: You've never had to fsck a 2TB+ array, have you?... This is why we DEMAND journaling UFS2

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/9/06, Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be using the IPs to do is: SELECT ip, count(1) FROM systems GROUP BY ip ORDER BY count DESC; to look for any 'abnormalities'

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/06, Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be using the IPs to do is: SELECT ip, count(1) FROM systems GROUP

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/06, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling file system as I would use it on every box. snip Softupdates are the FreeBSD equivalent. From my point of

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Igor Robul wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be using the IPs

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/6/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've now committed v2.0 of the 300.statistics periodic script ... this one adds the device reporting that we'd talked about previously, and the summary reports now reflect the driver(s) in use for those deciding to report ... This Phase of

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/6/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've now committed v2.0 of the 300.statistics periodic script ... this one adds the device reporting that we'd talked about previously, and the summary reports now reflect

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: Anyhow, how about the following little enhancement. This lists the CPUs on the system pretending they are CPU0, CPU1, ... devices. The URI escape stuff should be automatically decoded by PHP

Re: Changing root's shell

2006-08-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/06, Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: how do you drop to single user mode? I just know how to get there at boot time. Thanks. On 8/8/06, *Pete Slagle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Supermicro X6DVL-EG-2 Compatibility

2006-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/6/06, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. Quick hardware question here... We're looking to move a dedicated server to a new datacenter with new hardware. The Dual Xeon boards in the new datacenter are the Supermicro X6DVL-EG-2 with the Intel E7320 chipset. I see the E7320

How do I set Mixer settings in stone.

2006-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
After every reboot I need to run 'mixer ogain 85'. I'd like to never have to do this again. How do I tell this to FreeBSD? I've tried yelling at him, for example: FreeBSD! Stop resetting the mixer ogain! damit! But this never works. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also

Fastest disk in the west or bad iozone numbers?

2006-08-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone have a clue why iozone reports disk read rates of 688MegaBytes/s on a 1GB test file? Am I doing something stupid, like not converting the numbers correctly? I've attached the iozone report, It's from a single 400GB Seagate SATA drive. infomatic# iozone -az -g 1g -b ~/seagate.xls

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
depth? Should there be only one? If I add one for each resolution and color depth combo is there a way to switch the resolution in the WM? Thanks for the input. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis Original Message Subject: Re: Replacing windows XP at home. From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/08/2006 4:58 AM, User Freebsd wrote: Getting a list of devices is actually pretty easy, and I've tried this on my 4.x machines also, so it isn't something that will be a problem on older versions: # pciconf -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:

Re: vidcontrol

2006-08-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/06, Jeff Molofee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed an odd problem when I set allscreens_flags=MODE_282. If I set this in rc.conf, when I reboot my machine, the minute GDM comes up, I can see black on the top half of my screen, overwriting everything else on the screen. As I move the

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/08/2006 11:44 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: 899 bytes * (10^7) = 8.37258995 gigabytes... Remember... Once this code is pushed out to hosts you can't change it. 10 years from now we'll still have hosts sending in old data What was wrong

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually not looking for a Windows look alike. I am simply replacing my XP system with a BSD solution. I am looking for a fast easy to configure and fun WM. I am absolutely looking for something new to use. not Windows like. That

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Atom Powers wrote: It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get numbers now with an

Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thought you couldn't. At the end of the day, I

Re: 17 or 19

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19 is $100 more expensive as the 17 What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17 or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19 one. I'm not that

Re: Intel 82563EB + Blackford on v6.1

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/16/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that most of the new MBs with the Blackford chipset use the 82563EB dual gig intel controller. Is there support forthcoming for the controller? Has anyone tested with a blackford MB yet? Ditto... Supermicro X7DBE. Where is the

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/31/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing sent from local host - will count systems from any version of

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User Freebsd writes: Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need to do something like: ifconfig | grep ether | sha256 | md5 since the

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just add in the patch in kern/65627 and run the CPU serial number through your hash? Because you can still fake the dam thing, making the whole idea useless!!! Am I the only one that can see this ... what the hell people! I just

SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also... what can we do with the old cables to fix them... super

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/1/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User Freebsd writes: Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness? We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per host, how are you going to know whether to update a hosts record

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/31/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Colin Percival wrote: There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees. Also, I would guess that

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
trigger on the first of the month within 5 minutes of each other (10^6 per minute). This equates to 16706 clients per second. We would need 326KB/s or 2610Kbit/s to handle this load. This is a problem, even half of that is a problem. On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/29/06

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/31/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Born, Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:15 PM

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/10/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running 5.4-STABLE and I would like to have better resolution (more lines and columns) when I boot into console. I used to be able to issue a command once there but I have forgotten that command. I remember trying to allude to it via rc.conf

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